Coin bank with guarded slot means



1953 A. P. VESCHIO I 2,648,494

COIN BANK WITH GUARDED SLOT MEANS Filed Nov. 20. 1950 Anthony P Veschio INVENTOR.

BY @Mm Patented Aug. 1 1", 1953 COIN BANK WITH GUARDED SLOT MEANS Anthony P. Veschio, Monessen, Pa., assignor of five per cent to Andres Hrebenor and five per cent to Frank Tomaskovic, both of Monessen,

Application November 20, 1950, Serial No. 196,646

3 Claims.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in portable coin banks of the so-called home type and has more particular reference to an all glass transparent bank which is possessed of several distinctive characteristics.

More specifically, the invention has to do with a souvenir bank, that is one, which is molded and shaped to represent a given object, for example, a bank shaped to represent a state or other geographical locality, a bank shaped to represent a famous building or the like wherein the coin feeding neck is attached to the bank proper by a fracturable web, whereby upon severing the web, the neck may be detached, the coins removed and the remainder of the bank salvaged as a souvenir, memento, or the like.

A more important object of the invention is to provide a bank wherein the coin feeding and delivering neck is constructed to include ways and means whereby it is virtually impossible to shake coins out of the bank once same have been deposited and wherein it is likewise equally difficult to insert sharp instruments or the like with a view toward prying and jimmying coins out.

Briefly summarized, the bank is characterized by a glass or equivalent depository having a wall with an opening therein, there being an especially constructed coin feeder and delivering neck mounted, by a severable web in said opening. The neck is substantially cylindrical, has a coin inlet slot, has a slotted chute on its interior end and is provided intermediate such ends with baffles to prevent an unauthorized person from jimmying coins from the bank by way of the neck.

Other objects and advantages will become readily apparent from the following description in the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings.

In the accompanying sheet of drawings wherein like numerals are employed to designate like parts throughout the views:

Fig. 1 is a top plan view of a safety-type coin bank constructed in accordance with the principles of the present invention;

Fig. 2 is a central vertical section taken approximately on the plane of the line 2-2 of Fig. 1 looking in the direction of the arrows;

Fig. 3 is an enlarged fragmentary detail section taken on the plane of the line 3-3 of Fig. 1 looking in the direction of the arrows and showing the manner in which the safety feeder neck is severably mounted in normal position;

Fig. 4 is a. fragmentary perspective view showing the bank inverted and illustrating the manner in which the baflle elements function to frustrate one attempting to jimmy the coins from the bank;

Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the complete bank showing substantially all features of same; and,

Fig. 6 is a fragmentary view essentially in section, showing the manner in which the safety neck, as a unit, is severed and dislodged in a systematic manner, whereby to permit the main body or depository of the bank to be salvaged for use as a souvenir.

Referring now to the drawings by way of reference numerals and accompanying lead lines, the bank or depository, the principal unit, is denoted by the numeral 8 and the complemental coin feeder and the delivery neck by the numeral I0. These parts 8 and I0 are integrated into an entity as shown and the material used in molding or otherwise forming the bank is preferably transparent glass. In the illustration appearing in the drawings the bank resembles a substantially rectangular box and defines a collecting chamber or depository I2. The shape of the bank is optional, of course, but for the most part will be a shape predetermined by the manufacturer. The shape could represent a public building, a statue, a state or other 10- cality etc. Here the bank represents the outline of a state.

The neck II), which is the significant aspect of the invention, is of a safety jimmy-proof type. It is formed of the same glass and is here shown to be substantially cylindrical in cross-sectional form. The cylinder has a portion rising above the bank proper and a portion projecting into the coin receiving depository I2. It is perhaps best to define this as a neck fitted into an opening I4 in the flat top wall I6 of the bank proper. The intermediate portion of the neck is joined to the wall I6 by a severable or fracturable web. The seam which identifies the web is denoted by the numeral IS. The upper end of the neck 20 is provided with a coin slot 22 and the lower end is provided with an obliquely inclined portion which is slotted at 24 and defines a gravity feed or delivery chute 26. The portion of the neck which protrudes into the interior of the bank is denoted at 28 and the portion which projects above the top wal1 of the bank is denoted at 30. In close proximity to and parallel with the slot 22 and vertically disposed and located on the interior of the neck is a depending baflle 32. This has an inclined lower edge or surface 34 spaced above the plane of said chute.

Obviously, this bafiie presents a barrier and makes it extremely difiicult, if not impossible, for one to insert the blade of a knife or the like through the slot 22 in attempt to pry or jimmy a coin from the neck by turning the bank upside down and dumping a coin into the neck as shown in Fig. 4. The inclined surface 34, when the neck is in the inverted position shown in Fig. 4, tends to cock the coin in such a Way that it is even more difficult to manipulate an instrument in seeking to maneuver a coin out through the intake slot 22. To make it more jimmy-proof, there is an additional hazard and this takes the form of a prong or lug 36. It follows that by placing the barrier wall 34 at right angles to the top 20 and in close proximity to the slot 22, and placing the lug at right angles to the barrier wall and also in the path of the slot 22, these obstacles make it virtually impossible for the unauthorized person to steal coins from the bank. As a matter of fact, by protruding a portion of the neck into the bank and providing an oblique slot 24, it is difficult for one to lodge coins in the neck to begin with. It is not the purpose of the instant specification to cover the entire story of the invention primarily from a standpoint of the manufacturer and user. On the other hand, it will be clear from the description that the construction described is such as to fulfill the requirements and needs of manufacturers and users alike.

A careful consideration of the foregoing description in conjunction with the invention as illustrated in the drawings will enable the reader to obtain a clear understanding and impression of the alleged features of merit and novelty sufficient to clarify the construction of the invention as hereinafter claimed.

Minor changes in shape, size, materials and rearrangement of parts may be resorted to in actual practice so long as no departure is made from the invention as claimed.

Having described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

1. A coin bank comprising a depository having a wall, and a one-piece cylindrical neck removably mounted in opening means in said wall by way of a fracturable web, said neck having an upper portion projecting above the plane of the wall and having a lower portion projecting into the depository, said neck being provided with a coin intake slot, and having at its inner end a slotted inclined chute, and being provided on its interior with fixed out-of-line complemental bafiie elements.

2. A coin bank comprising a transparent depository having a flat top Wall, and a one-piece cylindrical glass neck mounted in said wall and having an upper portion projecting above the plane of said top wall and having a lower portion projecting into the depository, said neck being provided at its top with a coin intake slot, being provided at its inner end with a slotted inclined chute, and being provided on its interior with complemental baifie elements, one element being a vertical partition with an inclined edge portion and the other element being a lug opposed to and at right angles to said partition.

3. A coin bank comprising a depository having a horizontal wall provided with an opening, a vertical one-piece neck removably mounted in said opening and joined to said wall intermediate its upper and lower end portions by way of a fracturable connecting web, said neck being cylindrical and having its upper end portion projecting to a plane above the plane of said wall and its lower portion depending below the plane of said Wall into the coin receiving space of said depository, the top of said upper end portion being closed except for the provision therein of a coin insert slot, the bottom of said end portion being imperforate and obliquely inclined and providing a chute, a wall portion of the lower end portion of the neck adjacent to said chute having a coin discharge slot, a vertical balile located on the interior of said neck and having its upper end parallel with said coin insertion slot, and joined with and depending from the underside of said top in a plane at right angles to the plane of said top, the vertical edge portions of said balile being joined with diametrically opposite interior surfaces of the neck, the lower end of said baffle terminating in plane above the plane of said chute, said bafile having a vertical fiat surface in close proximity to and communicable with one longitudinal side of said coin insertion slot.

ANTHONY P. VESCHIO.

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